Open questions
What we're still trying to find on the files we watch: 21 questions across 9 cases. Each one is a concrete record — a flight track, an inquest result, a newspaper page — that would move a case forward. Taken from each case's next checks; nothing here is a claim.
The LA Freeway Orb: A Dawn Chopper Clip, Re-dated
- The ADS-B flight track for the FOX 11 helicopter (reported as Bell 407 N50Q; unverified for this flight) around 6:20–6:30 a.m. PT on 15 Sep 2026.
- From that track, which freeway is in frame — so the object’s drift can be compared with the east wind.
- Any FAA or station statement about the clip.
Orbs over Spirit Mountain: Cody's Ridge Lights Return
- Timestamped ADS-B tracks for the sighting nights over Cody and the Bighorns.
- Sky charts — stars, planets, satellite passes — for the same times and bearings.
- Any statement from the BLM Cody Field Office, the Park County or Big Horn County sheriff, or the FAA.
Loch Ness from Orbit: Three Elongated Shapes
- Whether the official Loch Ness sightings register lists or assesses the satellite shapes.
- The capture date of the Google Earth imagery that shows them.
CENTCOM Spheres on IR: Six Objects, ~480 mph
- Any new official adjudication of the clip beyond the release framing.
The Jersey Devil of the Pine Barrens
- Digitized January 1909 press coverage of the Jersey Devil scare, to cite the panic from page images.
The Grand Canyon Wild Man of 1903
- The 1881–82 Tombstone Daily Nugget, Weekly Arizona Miner (Prescott) and Tucson Citizen “wild man” originals cited by Arizona Highways.
- The Albuquerque Journal-Democrat and San Francisco Chronicle / Examiner printings — which one ran the 1903 story first?
- The 1967 Boy Scout article said to be the first printed use of “Mogollon Monster.”
Adolph Ruth and the Superstitions, 1931
- The outcome of the Pinal County inquest (spring 1932).
- Arizona State Library or Superstition Mountain Museum holdings as a second institutional source.
- Name spellings (finder; son) from the newspaper page images.
The Tucson Lead Crosses and the Kingdom of Calalus
- How many objects were found? Sources disagree: 24 (Arizona Historical Society), 31 (Archaeology Southwest), 32 (Pima County Public Library).
- A full reading of Don Burgess, Journal of the Southwest 51:1 (2009), before quoting it.
- Unread December 1925 newspaper hits in Chronicling America.
Tombstone's Winged Monster and the Thunderbird Photo That Never Was
- Other 1890 reprints of the “winged monster” item, before describing how far it spread.
- The origin of the claim tying the legendary photo to a Sontag (sourced so far only to True West).